Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of ambition fastened to earth by the inevitable tendrils of dependence. It is their first play and it has, here and there, the gaucheries of inexperience, but it seldom loses its hold on the fundamental truth on which it is based-the fact that, in the curiously woven pattern of human life, there is no such thing as independence...
Proverbial the jealousy between a man's mother and his wife; proverbial the trouble that an old love affair will cause to a new relationship. Yet Author Sedgwick takes the two threadbare situations, weaves bright new colors into the pattern...
...Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries...
...Spaulding has lent some of the very fine things in the exhibition. His pictures--eighteen in all--have a general high level of quality. His "Still Life" by Matisse is a daring picture. The artist is interested only in colour and pattern. It is subtle and defies accepted rules. On analysis it proves, like some of the most interesting music of the period, to be made up of discords of color rather than harmonies...
EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...